Albany County absentee ballot numbers

Here are the absentee ballot numbers for some of the races that could potentially be close tonight in Albany County.

County wide, there are 4,217 ballots out, with 2,847 back as of this afternoon. Of course, that doesn’t matter much because every single county-wide race is uncontested. Yawn.

In the county’s hottest race, the contest between incumbent Colonie supervisor Paula Mahan and challenger Denise Sheehan, there are 1,238 ballots out, with 915 returned.

In Bethlehem, meanwhile, there are 548 absentee ballots out with 371 returned. There, newcomer John Clarkson faces Town Board member Kyle Kotary and Richard Reeves-Ellington.

In Albany, where the only truly contested city-wide race is the three-way contest for two seats on the school board, there are 1,133 absentees out, with 652 back.

Of those, 97/62 are in the 2nd Legislative District, where embattled incumbent Wanda Willingham — on the Independence Party line after losing the Democratic primary — faces a challenge from Merton Simpson.

In the 6th Legislative District, where incumbent Brian Scavo faces a challenge from Noelle Kinsch, there are 158 out with 62 back. Scavo also lost his Democratic primary to Kinsch but has continued to run on the Conservative Party line.